250 THE OCEAN RIVER 



The Indian frontier in the eighteenth century was pushed back 

 beyond the Alleghenies. The sea frontiers of the adventurous 

 sons of New England girdled the globe. Now at last the north- 

 ward sweep of the Ocean River was coming alive with their 

 trading vessels, seeking not only the Caribbean waters but the 

 far spice islands of the Indian Ocean and Indonesia. 



